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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Custom bench and trio of paintings...

Hi Everyone! Happy Thursday! I had a really good couple of days. Tuesday I finished the bench for my co-worker Shane. I finished the trio of paintings for my client and sent her the pics of them and she loved them. I finished the two custom signs for my friend and client that runs a daycare, I'm just waiting for the sealer to cure so I can send them to her. I sold a sign in my Etsy shop today so I had to make two trips to the post office, YEAH! And I got to talk with a dear friend of mine last night on the phone. He called to check on my dad! So it was a good couple of days.

This is what Shane's bench ended up looking like. He gave me specific instructions as to the size and style and then left the rest to me.

I took this before I finished sanding, as you can see the light spots where I filled the nail holes. I used wooden buttons to cover the screws which I think gives it a nice finished look.

It will look better once it's been stained. But Shane is going to have that pleasure. If it were me, I would paint it and put a cushion on the seat, but that's just me. He has two young kids so a cushion probably isn't practical.

Shane hasn't seen it yet. I told him yesterday at work that it was finished, but it was just too windy to haul it to town, especially with the threat of storms. So maybe he can get it tonight but definitely this weekend. I need the room in the shop. I have an order for another headboard bench to get started on.

And here are a few pictures of the trio of paintings I did for a client. She saw the post of the craft fair wrap up (where they looked yellowish) and emailed me about those paintings. My dad sold them at the fair and she asked me to make another set. And here they are.

I almost like them better than the original set.

I think they would look good with a background of barn red.....

...maybe I'll make that set for myself.

And last night I started working on another painting....hopefully I'll be able to share that with you tomorrow...hopefully. Thanks for stopping by.

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Monday, April 9, 2012

Spring wreath....

Hi Everyone! I hope you had an enjoyable weekend and a great Easter. I spent the weekend working on projects and getting ready for the fair at the end of the month. And I have projects to share with you! But first, I want to show you the flowers I got for my aunt Marge. My parents had Marge and Uncle Bill up Saturday night for dessert to celebrate Aunt Marge's birthday.

I just love daisy's. They make me smile. And don't you just love this color of purple?

So now onto one of the projects I finished.

Now that my saw is fixed, I've been trying to get caught up on all the things I started working on before it quit working. And this was one of them. I made this little picket fence out of paint sticks and a piece of 1x2" board. I cut the paint sticks into pickets and glued and nailed them to scrap pieces of 1x2" boards. Then painted it white and added a bit of antique medium.

Then I added them to a grapevine wreath with green and cream pip berries.

Then I added a couple of dragonflies and a butterfly that I painted.

I think it turned out kind of cute. And I'm hanging it on my front door until the fair. Now I just need to build a couple of wreath holders for the wreaths I've made. Tomorrow is my day off and I have several benches to build so I'm hoping for a very productive day! I hope you have a productive week! Thanks for stopping by.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Silhouette blocks....

Hi Everyone! Happy Tuesday! Today is my day off so I'm busy trying to get projects finished including a set of signs for a client. I'm hoping to get them finished or mostly finished today. But I want to show you the blocks I made last night. I had to wait until this morning to have a photo session with them in natural light and they still had to dry. So this is what I came up...

I started off with some scrap pieces of wood that I cut into blocks roughly the same size. I sanded and painted them black.

Then I painted three blocks red, three blocks mustard yellow, three blocks antique white and three blocks a gray-green.

I painted a silhouette in black on each block. Once it dried, I applied an antique medium.

This set contains a bee, butterfly and dragonfly.

This set has leaves.

This set has flowers.

And this set birds.

There they are all together.....

....all mixed up....

....a smaller set....

...different colors....

...there are so many options....

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Trio of paintings.....

Hi Everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend. I had a good weekend. I worked on Saturday morning. The weather was good. I was able to get a lot accomplished. I wanted to share with you one of the projects I started last week and finally finished this weekend. I decided to make a set of three canvases out of wood. I used a part of scrap luan and furring strips that were left over from another project to make my canvas.

I glued and nailed these together.

I sanded it and filled a few edges with wood filler.

It has a very nice grain and I thought about not painting it, but I just love this leaf green color that I had to use it.

I painted the base coat white and then a very pretty leaf green.

Then I dry brushed a coat of light green, a coat of antique white, then a bit of white.

Once the paint dried, I sketched a butterfly, a dandelion puff and a dragon fly, one on each canvas. Then painted them white.

This is after about 3 coats of white. I ended up putting on 5 coats of white paint to get the effect I wanted.

I wanted them to be all white, but that meant several coats on the outlining and a light coat of paint on the filled in areas.

I really like the way the dandelion puff turned out. With a few seeds blowing in the wind.

The dragonfly is simple but goes well with the butterfly and dandelion.

Once I was happy with the white, I put on a coat of antique medium. I always like the way it looks once it's antiqued. I was going to sand it and I still might, but I always hate to sand paintings. All that work just to be sanded away.

I'm going to enjoy looking at these for a while and then decide whether to sand them.

But my big question is....

....do I need to add some black or gray to give them a bit more definition. What do you think?

Friday, March 18, 2011

Magnets, Signs, and a Sneak Peek...

Hello everyone! I just thought I'd share a few of the things I did this past weekend. I will post the big things in the next couple of days, but thought I'd share a few of the smaller things and give you a sneak peek of a couple of the others.

These are magnets for your frig or anywhere you'd like to put them. The butterflies and dragonflies started out their life as Christmas ornaments that I spray painted and attached magnets to. The purple and red flowers were once tart pans. I spray painted them, added a wooden circle that I painted and then attached magnets to the back of the pan. My favorite is the blue dragon fly.

This is another sign I made for the shop. I liked the saying and the script. (Sorry about the pink in the corner, my camera was in the process of dying.)

I really liked how this one turned out. But I'm wondering if I need to distress the lettering on these? What do you think?

Here's a sneak peak of what I've been working on. Not much of sneak, but let's just say that in these stacks of wood, I found something to make....the wood just sort of speaks to me. I'm working on the post and will try to have it ready for tomorrow. What would you make out of these piles of wood? Thanks of stopping by.

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